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| Apr 26, 2019 | 2019 Plus Eight Accelerator Companies Revealed | What do five companies that focus on virtual reality, financial solutions, communication confidence, construction equipment hire and landlord/renter relationships all have in common?
They are all startups that have been selected to take par... |
| Jan 17, 2019 | Last chance to apply for Plus Eight Accelerator | Applications for WA’s top tech accelerator – Spacecubed’s Plus Eight Accelerator – close January 28th… could it help YOUR startup to scale up?
The Plus Eight accelerator program – now in its third year in Perth – is a partnership between Sp... |
| Aug 23, 2018 | Don’t Hit the Brakes – Accelerating to the End of the Plus Eight Program | A travel experience company, a babysitting platform, a space hire company and an instant building approvals platform all walk into a bar…
The Plus Eight program is no joke, the bar is FLUX, and these four companies have all ordered the same... |
| May 11, 2017 | Why Startup Investors Love Online Marketplaces | A third generation of Online Marketplaces that combine workflow and networks are changing the underlying economics of many industries. tiffany98101/flickr, CC BY
By Paul X. McCarthy, UNSW
Online marketplaces, also known as platform compan... |
| Feb 17, 2017 | Fintech Accelerators and Incubators in Singapore, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia | Accelerators and incubators play an important role within a startup ecosystem, as they provide a platform for young teams and startups to connect with successful entrepreneurs, allowing them to learn from the bests while securing funding an... |
| Oct 25, 2016 | The evolution of online marketplaces and why startup investors are so in love with them | Online marketplaces, also known as platform companies, are sprouting up everywhere and redefining business in every industry.
“The Uber of…” has become shorthand for tech startups looking to redefine the way everything is delivered, from le... |
| Mar 7, 2016 | Why startup investors love online marketplaces | By Paul X. McCarthy
Online marketplaces – also known as platform companies – are sprouting up everywhere and redefining business in every industry.
“The Uber of ….” has become shorthand for tech startups looking to redefine the way everythi... |
| Feb 3, 2016 | Telstra partners with one of Israel’s biggest accelerators to give access to world-leading investors and entrepreneurs | When muru-D co-founder Annie Parker first visited one of Israel’s biggest accelerators she knew it would be an ideal partner.
More than two years later muru-D has grown its portfolio to more than 40 startups and alumni and the Parker says t... |
| Feb 2, 2016 | Seven tips for novice angel investors so you can take advantage of the innovation statement and “Atlassian effect” | The innovation statement tax incentives and Atlassian IPO millionaire effect will create a new wave of tech startup investors in 2016.
These are the strategies I wish someone had shared with me when I first started my angel investing journe... |
| Jan 25, 2016 | How diving into the startup scene gave a delivery service its zip: “You have to put yourself out there” | Not becoming deeply immersed in the Australian startup community and taking advantage of the various opportunities on offer is one of the biggest mistakes a founder can make, Ziip co-founder Naby Mariyam says.
The Sydney-based startup is ou... |
| Jan 18, 2016 | 16-year-old Ukrainian entrepreneur launches fintech startup in Australia | Stas Prisiazhnuk, a 16-year-old entrepreneur from Donetsk, a war-torn city in Eastern Ukraine, is expecting to receive $40,000 in seed-stage funding from Muru-D, a Australian startup accelerator program, to develop his fintech project Perso... |
| Sep 29, 2015 | Muru-D looking for startups with an enterprising angle | Australian startups need to embrace the wealth of opportunities on the enterprise side of business, muru-D co-founder Annie Parker says.
The Telstra-backed accelerator has just opened applications for its third Sydney batch, and Parker says... |
| Aug 31, 2015 | ParkFit off to fast start even before River City Labs Accelerator | The program doesn’t even officially start for another two weeks, but the River City Labs Accelerator has already paid dividends for a Brisbane fitness startup.
The Brisbane startup hub partnered with muru-D to create the 14-week-long accele... |
| Aug 3, 2015 | Don’t be so disruptive: Benefits of partnering with a corporation | Today’s tech media loves to romanticise the notion of the startup challenger disrupting big cashed-up corporat
es. Entire conferences like Disrupt explore, encourage and promote the disruption of incumbents.
Disruption at play
But romantic ... |
| Jul 31, 2015 | Brisbane accelerator program to give help and $20,000 to five startups | River City Labs is partnering with muru-D to launch its first accelerator program, and there’s $20,000 on offer for five Brisbane startups.
Kicking off in September, the accelerator program will offer a combination of seed funding, co-worki... |
| Jul 23, 2015 | Angel investor Renata Cooper’s Forming Circles Global fund on the lookout for female-led startups | Angel investor Renata Cooper has launched a new investment fund focusing on investing in and mentoring female-led tech startups.
Forming Circles Global will have a pool of $500,000 to be invested over three years into local or global female... |
| Jul 15, 2015 | Hey SydStart, looking for female conference speakers? Here are almost 50 women you could call for starters | All-male panels have become an all too common sight.
Recently we’ve seen one of Australia’s biggest startup conferences, SydStart, announce its first round of speakers without any women featured, although they’re promising there are female ... |
| May 21, 2015 | Muru-D to host startup workshops for indigenous Australians, says that’s just the start | Sydney-based startup accelerator muru-D is looking to give indigenous Australians a leg-up when it comes to turning their business idea into a fully-fledged technology company.
The national accelerator, which is backed by Telstra, will hold... |
| May 8, 2015 | Measuring success in startup land: Demo Night for muru-D’s Class#2 | The team from Tripalocal (Source: muru-D Facebook page)
There are plenty of different ways to measure startup success across customers, investors, partnerships or distribution agreements. So which one should you aim for?
● Four have signed ... |
| May 1, 2015 | How muru-D grad Pixc was accepted into 500 Startups without applying | Pixc, a startup that helps e-commerce stores create better product images, has been accepted into American accelerator program 500 Startups, without submitting an application.
Pixc founder Holly Cardew says a chance meeting with a 500 Start... |
| Apr 10, 2015 | The Icehouse says muru-D partnership will improve trans-Tasman collaboration and access to markets | The Icehouse chief executive Andy Hamilton says the new trans-Tasman partnership with Telstra-backed accelerator muru-D will help to connect startups with funding and overseas markets, while sharing valuable lessons on topics such as how to... |
| Feb 5, 2015 | Tech entrepreneur Clive Mayhew pumps $1 million into OpenLearning, as the MOOC provider raises $1.7 million | Massive open online course provider OpenLearning has raised $1.7 million that will be used to help meet its goal of increasing the number of students using its platform from 125,000 to a million by the end of the year.
Entrepreneur Clive Ma... |
| Jan 21, 2015 | Three ways to improve your pitch deck | The difference between a good pitch and an average one can see your startup either getting much-needed venture capital or the cold shoulder from investors.
A critical aspect of a pitch is the pitch deck – the slideshow that outlines essenti... |
| Jan 15, 2015 | Queensland entrepreneur to represent Australia at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards | 20-year-old entrepreneur from Brisbane will represent Australia at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards in Washington.
The international competition will see Nkosana Mafico, a bachelor of business student at the University of Queensland, ... |
| Nov 18, 2014 | Startups are the new corporates, corporates are the new startups | Everybody wants to be startup. Recently, The Guardian claimed they were one, along with Westpac and a number of other large and well-established companies. And if they’re not claiming to be one, they certainly want to get in on the startup ... |
| Nov 11, 2014 | Dear Australia, this is how you build a startup ecosystem, love New Zealand | Aiming globally from the outset and smart government support: these are a couple of lessons Australian entrepreneurs can learn from New Zealand’s startup ecosystem, according to The Icehouse’s Mark MacLeod-Smith.
MacLeod-Smith is marketing ... |
| Nov 10, 2014 | Should you stay or should you go? The big question for many Australian startups | Startup founders need to get out of Australia and see the standard set by entrepreneurs in successful tech hubs around the world, according to Startup Victoria’s Scott Handsaker, but that does not necessarily mean they should move there.
“N... |
| Oct 23, 2014 | Strength in diversity for muru-D’s second intake of startups | Telstra-backed accelerator muru-D has announced the 11 startups that make up its second class, and they’re the most diverse batch of entrepreneurs co-founder Annie Parker has ever been involved with in such a program.
The 11 startups come f... |
| Sep 29, 2014 | The top 15 tips in applying for a tech accelerator | I’ve just finished reviewing 180 business pitches for muru-D and will look at another 100+ for Startmate over the next few weeks.
I’ve whipped together my thoughts on the written applications submitted:
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| Sep 15, 2014 | Do we need to concentrate on one city or build at a national level? | TL;DR – proximity is important for startups and startup ecosystems. Work local, connect nationally and sell global!
This is in response to Atlassian cofounder Mike Cannon-Brooke’s comments at Sydstart which sparked these discussions in Busi... |
| Sep 1, 2014 | Startup ecosystems and compound interest: the case for keeping your startup in Australia | Why are so many people working to help keep as many startups as possible in Australia?
Good question.
Secondly, it took work at all levels of the industry to ensure that all of the parts required to support the companies could be provided l... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | Muru-D makes a good case for the corporate backing of startups in Australia | The first batch of Muru-D startups are going to be a difficult act to follow, according to Muru-D co-founder Annie Parker.
She estimates each one of the graduating startups, ChattyKidz, FarmBot, Lime Rocket, Momentum Cloud, Open Learning, P... |
| Aug 15, 2014 | Muru-D demo night showcases power of the informal sales pitch | There were supposed to be just nine pitches at the Telstra-backed Muru-D accelerator’s demo night, but in reality there were many more.
The official pitches from all nine founders were very polished, and all nine were able to show evidence ... |
| May 20, 2014 | LA opens up the rolodex for Aussie muru-D accelerator startups | Nine startups from the muru-D accelerator have returned from a trip to the United States where they were pursued heavily by a number of groups in Los Angeles to use the city as their gateway to the US market, according to muru-D startup hea... |
| Oct 21, 2013 | Telstra-sponsored national start-up accelerator launches in Sydney | Telstra has launched a new start-up accelerator called muru-D based in Paddington, Sydney.
Twenty start-ups will be selected to pitch for 10 places in the first intake. The 10 selected companies will get access to a six-month accelerator pr... |
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| IoT startup scene ramps up in Melbourne | Melbourne’s IoT scene has received a shot in the arm with recent major initiatives by Startupbootcamp and Telstra-backed muru-D.
UK-based Startupbootcamp, which runs startup programs around the world with local partners, has launched its En... |